Software developer, screencaster and author Avdi Grimm gives Indiedotes a look behind the scenes of the creation of Ruby Tapas and Master the Object-Oriented Mindset in Ruby and Rails.

“You can delegate more than you think…the only really essential part of what I do is my taste.”

Avdi talks about how he determined what to delegate and what to keep for himself, the importance of taste when creating something and what to do when your product becomes a hamster wheel. He also shares how he made the decisions about what to include in the MOOM course, how he determines pricing of a product and talks marketing his products.

"I’m the kind of person who just plugs away at something until it’s done.”

She shared the one test she uses to know when it’s time to bring in others, the approach they took to get users, how she picked Erik Berlin to work with, the two week product process they use to build features, and how to determine what tasks to give to others vs trying to do it all yourself.

Sean Griffin built Diesel to answer the question he was asking himself: Can Rust work as a high level language?

“I decided pretty early on that I didn’t want this to be my project, I wanted this to be the community’s project.”

Sean went back through his early commits to understand how the project started and evolved. He shared why he writes detailed commit messages, the formation of Diesel core team, how he grew the community and how he decided what to put into Diesel 1.0.

Tracy Osborn is an author, designer and developer who has run four successful Kickstarter campaigns.

"You can't just press the button..."

Indiedotes spoke to Tracy about her latest Kickstarter campaign for Hello Web App 2.0 and what it really takes to run a successful Kickstarter. Tracy also shared her tips for running a successful Kickstarter campaign, why she chose to self-publish her books, and the downside of using Amazon for self-publishing.

The creator of Codecaster on creating a product to solve your own problem, why he built it in a language he’d never used before, the features he shipped in the beta version and how he built feedback loops into his project.